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HSK
to react / to respond / reaction / response / reply / chemical reaction / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
repeatedly / over and over / to upend / unstable / to come and go / (of an illness) to return
HSK 3
to oppose; to be against; to object to
HSK 3
anyway / in any case / to come over from the enemy's side
HSK 3
variant of 反覆|反复
HSK 3
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  *反* | 反* | *反
contrary / in reverse / inside out or upside down / to reverse / to return / to oppose / opposite / against / anti- / to rebel / to use analogy / instead / abbr. for 反切 phonetic system
HSK 4
to mirror / to reflect / mirror image / reflection / (fig.) to report / to make known / to render
HSK 4
on the contrary; instead
HSK 4
to resist / to rebel
HSK 6
to ask (a question) in reply / to answer a question with a question / rhetorical question
HSK 6
repercussions / reaction / echo
HSK 6
to reflect upon oneself / to examine one's conscience / to question oneself / to search one's soul
HSK 7-9
to strike back; to beat back; to counterattack
HSK 7-9
to send back information / feedback
HSK 7-9
to be disgusted with / to dislike / bad reaction / antipathy
HSK 7-9
to retort / to refute
HSK 7-9
to think back over sth / to review / to revisit / to rethink / reflection / reassessment
HSK 7-9
(coll.) but on the contrary; but instead
HSK 7-9
conversely / in reverse order / in an opposite direction
HSK 7-9
contrast; discrepancy
HSK 7-9
unusual / abnormal
HSK 7-9
to bounce / to bounce back / to boomerang / to ricochet / rebound (of stock market etc) / bounce / backlash / negative repercussions
HSK 7-9
reverse side / backside / the other side (of a problem etc) / negative / bad
HSK 7-9
unstable / erratic / changeable / fickle
communist attack against the Guomindang's encircle and annihilate campaign
to toss and turn
anti-infiltration (measures taken against subversive external forces) / (chemistry) reverse osmosis
reversal / inversion / to reverse / to invert (upside down, inside out, back to front, white to black etc)
opposite direction / reverse
to ask (a question) in reply / to answer a question with a question / rhetorical question
antonymous / (genetic) antisense
to counterattack / a counteroffensive
to rebel / to revolt
to reflect light
to turn a hand over / to put one's hand behind one's back / fig. easily done
(physiognomy) protruding bone at the back of the head, regarded as a sign of a renegade nature
to reflect / reflection (from a mirror etc) / reflex (i.e. automatic reaction of organism)
on the other hand... / conversely...
negative character / bad guy (in a story)
retching / vomiting
to renege / to go back (on a deal) / to back out (of a promise)
to counterattack / to come back after a defeat / to retrieve lost ground
villain (of a drama etc)
reverse type (white on black) / reversed-out (graphics) / highlighting (of selected text on a computer screen)
anti-communist
(a person's) rebellious appearance / signs of an impending rebellion / (physics) reversed phase
locked in (with the door locked from the outside)
to turn traitor; to defect
counterintelligence / protection against espionage
reflector (typically concave, as in a torch) / mirror (typically plane or convex)
vice versa
anti-war
(bird species of China) pied avocet (Recurvirostra avosetta)
lit. the guest acts as host (idiom); fig. to turn from passive to active behavior
dissenting vote
reactor
opposition (political) party
irony / to satirize
to make a false countercharge
(physics) reaction force
irony / ironic remark
to correct oneself / to renege / to break one's word
to reflect light / reflection / reflected light
trussed / with hands tied behind the back
to glance back / (fig.) to regret; to have second thoughts about sth
reflector
(Chinese opera) to play a role outside of one's specialty / (modern) to play a transvestite role / to masquerade as an opponent
to thwart enemy espionage; to engage in counterespionage
counterrevolutionary
anti-rightist / abbr. for 反右派鬥爭|反右派斗争
ruminant
to seek the cause in oneself rather than sb else
(idiom) to answer back sarcastically; to retort
antisemitism
to feed the enemy misinformation through their own spies / to sow discord in the enemy camp
reactionaries
disproof / rebuttal / reductio ad absurdum
reflection
inversely proportional / inverse ratio
to turn around
backslash (computing) / reversed diagonal
(idiom) to fall out with sb; to become enemies
anti-submarine / antisubmarine
reductio ad absurdum
counterclaim / countercharge (law)
inverse function (math.)
to support one's parents in their old age / to show filial piety / to to repay / to return a favor
reaction / reactionary
to make a false countercharge
introspection / to ask oneself
to ruminate / to chew the cud
anticyclone
antitrust (loanword)
earthern goblet stand also known as (old)
stratagem of sowing dissension / CL: 條|条
to turn one's face against sb and show no mercy (idiom); to turn against a friend
antimatter
traditional system expressing the phonetic value of a Chinese character using two other characters, the first for the initial consonant, the second for the rhyme and tone
to quarrel / to fall out with sb
lit. to turn over one's palm / fig. everything is going very well.

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